Discover Booths’ best: 25 exceptional wines to try this autumn

Is there a better range of supermarket wines in the UK than Booths?

On the strength of the wines on show at its latest press tasting, the upmarket ‘northern Waitrose’, which has 25 stores across the northwest of England, would certainly take some beating.

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Whether the wines in question are old school classics or more adventurous choices from lesser-known corners of the wine world, the quality is consistently high; no less importantly, the prices are always competitive and sometimes surprisingly low.

Wine buyer Victoria Anderson and sparkling and Champagne buyer Rachel Machin make for a small team, but they evidently know exactly what they’re doing, and nowhere is the thoroughness of their approach more clearly on display than in the exemplary EH Booth & Co own-label range.

The wines – notably the English Sparkling Wine, Barolo, St-Julien, Finest Reserve Port, and Sauternes – are all made by leading producers in their regions, and could all be described as ‘textbook,’ if that rather dry term didn’t undersell just how delicious they are.

Beyond the pleasingly clean and simple sans-serif labels of the EH Booth range, Francophiles are particularly well served on Booths’ shelves, as you might expect from a retailer who would probably see their main competitors as independent retailers and specialists such as The Wine Society or Majestic rather than (or at least as much as) other supermarkets.

Booths has added 19 new French wines to the range, with a delightful Corsican white (Domaine Terra di I Nostri’s Vermentinu), an exceptional organic Crozes-Hermitage (Gilles Robin’s Papillon) and a trio (white, orange and red) from the outstanding Languedoc-based English winemaker Katie Jones all very much among the highlights at this tasting.

Italy (including a sumptuous white newcomer: Planeta’s organic Terebinto Grillo) and Spain (with an outstanding bargain red, Sabina Tempranillo, among others) are also undoubted strengths, but so, too, is Australia.

There is also plenty of space for off-the-beaten-track finds such as the cracking pair featured here from Georgia.

Booths wines: 25 top autumn and winter buys

All wines tasted in September 2025. Prices do not reflect any special or multi-buy offers. Some wines might only be available either online or in selected stores. All bottle prices are correct at time of publication. Wines grouped by style and ordered by score, in descending order. 

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